Damaso Garcia
New York Yankees 1978–1979; Toronto Blue Jays 1980–1986; Atlanta Braves 1988; Montreal Expos 1989
Percentile snapshot
1985 season — qualified batters
of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 18 | 44 | 41 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .195 | .227 | .195 | .422 | 15.7 | 22.3 | .202 | -0.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | 38 | 38 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .263 | .263 | .289 | .553 | 47.7 | 51.8 | .250 | -0.1 |
| 1980 | 140 | 565 | 543 | 50 | 151 | 30 | 7 | 4 | 46 | 12 | 55 | 13 | 13 | .278 | .296 | .381 | .677 | 78.0 | 81.5 | .304 | 0.7 |
| 1981 | 64 | 263 | 250 | 24 | 63 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 32 | 13 | 3 | .252 | .277 | .304 | .581 | 58.9 | 64.3 | .269 | -0.3 |
| 1982 | 147 | 629 | 597 | 89 | 185 | 32 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 21 | 44 | 54 | 20 | .310 | .338 | .399 | .737 | 95.8 | 95.5 | .332 | 2.1 |
| 1983 | 131 | 561 | 525 | 84 | 161 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 38 | 24 | 34 | 31 | 17 | .307 | .336 | .390 | .727 | 94.9 | 95.8 | .327 | 1.8 |
| 1984 | 152 | 665 | 633 | 79 | 180 | 32 | 5 | 5 | 46 | 16 | 46 | 46 | 12 | .284 | .310 | .374 | .684 | 85.7 | 87.2 | .308 | 1.4 |
| 1985 | 146 | 627 | 600 | 70 | 169 | 25 | 4 | 8 | 65 | 15 | 41 | 28 | 15 | .282 | .302 | .377 | .679 | 81.8 | 84.2 | .302 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 122 | 446 | 424 | 57 | 119 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 46 | 13 | 32 | 9 | 6 | .281 | .306 | .375 | .681 | 82.7 | 84.2 | .305 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 21 | 64 | 60 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .117 | .159 | .183 | .342 | -16.7 | -4.3 | .164 | -0.7 |
| 1989 | 80 | 222 | 203 | 26 | 55 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 4 | .271 | .317 | .369 | .686 | 96.3 | 96.0 | .316 | 0.8 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-07-03 | LAA @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1980-05-10 | TOR @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1986-06-27 | TOR @ NYY Gameday | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1985-05-10 | SEA @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1982-06-27 | MIN @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.